We do it - They all do it
we do it | they do it | English |
-ομεν -οῦμεν |
-ουσιν -οῦσιν |
do it or are doing it |
For revision:
Imagine first you and your friends together (we-form),
then other people (they-form)
doing the following or say that they do it (often, always) or don't do it at all. |
λέγομεν
χαίρομεν
βαδίζομεν
ἐλαύνομεν
οἰκοῦμεν
φιλοῦμεν
σκάπτομεν
γεωργοῦμεν
πονοῦμεν
κάμνομεν
ἡσυχάζομεν |
λέγουσιν
χαίρουσιν
βαδίζουσιν
ἐλαύνουσιν
οἰκοῦσιν
φιλοῦσιν
σκάπτουσιν
γεωργοῦσιν
πονοῦσιν
κάμνουσιν
ἡσυχάζουσιν |
they say, speak
they greet or rejoice
they walk
they drive
they live = dwell
they love or kiss
they dig
they farm
they toil, lavour, work hard
they get tired
they have a rest, keep quiet |
Another little exercise for revision
- We meet Dikaiopolis. What do we do? (we're very pleased [to meet the famous man], we greet him [of course]
- ὁ βίος χαλεπός ἐστιν. What do we do? (moan of course)
- ὁ πόνος πολὺν σῖτον παρέχει. How do we feel? (we rejoice of course)
- ὁ πόνος ἐστιν ἀτέλεστος (ἀπέραντος) καὶ χαλεπός. How do we feel and what do we do? (tired, moan)
- κάμνομεν πολύ. So what do we do now? (rest of course)
- ὁ ἥλιος φλέγει καὶ κατατρίβει ἡμᾶς (=us). What do we do? (sit under a tree, in the shade, indoors.....)
- We are late. Do we σπεύδομεν ἢ βαδίζομεν βραδέως;
- We are Dikaiopolis and Xanthias and find πολλοὺς λίθους ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ. τί ποιοῦμεν;
- τί ποιοῦμεν with oxen? (drive them, attach them to ploughs, goad them)
- ὁ ἥλιος φλέγει. βλέπομεν πρὸς αὐτὁν; (you can, if you want to be blinded, I most certainly won't)
- τί ποιοῦμεν if we find an ἄροτρον on the dining-room table? I personally λαμβάνω αὐτὸ καὶ ἐκφέρω ἐκ τοῦ οἶκου εἰς τὸν κῆπον (the garden). Do you all not do more or less the same thing?
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